How Do You Assess Your Own Teaching?

World Language Classroom

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How often do we stop to reflect on our teaching? Hopefully we take the time and opportunity to do it regularly so that we are teaching our students as effectively as possible. In this episode I’m going to talk about reflective practice and how we can use this as language teachers. I’ll also include a discussion of success criteria and how this can work into our reflective practice. I know, this all sounds way up there in the theory world. I promise you it’s not and that it’s fairly simple.

Topics in this Episode:

• Reflection can help you to be more creative and try new things. It’s very easy to get stuck in a rut and it can be helpful to think about what you are doing and why you are doing it. This can help to spark new ideas and ways of thinking.
• Reflection in Learning and Professional Development: Theory and Practice, Moon, J. (1999)
• Reflective Practice for Language Teachers:
  1. Teach
  2. Assess the effect your teaching has on learning
  3. Consider what can improve the quality of teaching and learning
  4. Try the new ideas
  5. Reflect on effectiveness
  6. Repeat
• The Success Criteria Playbook John T. Almarode, Douglas Fisher, Kateri Thunder, Nancy Frey (2021)
• Tim Eagan on Episode 60: Leading a Proficiency Focused Language Department
• Success Criteria:
  • What will be learned?
  • Why is it going to be learned?
  • How will I know that it has been learned?
  • What will I do with what I learned?

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